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Adventures in Beekeeping
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Building a bee escape

10/12/2017

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I built a bee escape ( also known as a clearing board) a while back. You place these in between honey supers and the brood boxes (or any other box you are leaving on) and after 24 hours the bees have gone down, but not back up.  It works, I use it on my hives.  Why it works is up for debate, I’ve seen a lot of differing reasons (bees only turn one direction, etc). Once most of the bees have exited the honey super you can remove it to extract the honey. 

For anyone else who wants to build one the dimensions for the larger triangle are 10.5″ (long edge) and 8″ (short edge). This will give you the correct angle. I was able to build it with leftover wood from my other projects, so that was a nice bonus.

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Gettis link
3/3/2024 02:36:13 pm

Does the mesh go on top of the triangle so that the bees are forced to go through the vertices only? Is it just a flat triangular piece of mesh (not folding over the triangle sides? Also, is the view on the figure above as seen from below?
Thank you in advance, and best regards,
Gettis

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Donald Cole
3/4/2024 07:25:04 pm

Correct, the bees are allowed to only go through the openings where the "points" of the triangle do not meet. This view is seen from below. It is just wire mesh, stapled to the vertices.

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